[237] Take a few instances:--Mr. Wilson and Mr. Jowett speak of the Gospels as more or less accurately embodying a common _tradition_, pp. 161 and 346.--Dr. Temple and Mr. Jowett propose the heart and conscience, as _the overruling principle_, pp. 42-5, and 410:--and insist that the Bible is "a Spirit, not a Letter," pp. 36 and 357, 375, 425.--Dr. Temple and Dr. Williams regard the Bible as _the voice of conscience_, pp. 45 and 78:--look for _a verifying faculty_ in the individual, pp. 45 and 83:--dwell on the "interpolations" in Scripture, pp. 47 and 78.--Mr. Wilson and Mr. Jowett insist on the meaning which Scripture had _to those who first heard it_, as its true meaning, pp. 219, 223, 230, 232, and 338, 378:--on the necessity of _reconciling Intellectual men to Scripture_, pp. 198 and 374.--Professor Powell and Mr. Jowett are of one mind as to Miracles, pp. 109 and 349.--Dr. Temple and Mr. Jowett delight in the same image of the Colossal Man, pp. 1-49 and 331, 387, 422.--Dr. Williams and Mr. Jowett coincide in their estimate of the German Commentators, pp. 67 and 340.--Dr. Temple and Dr. Williams are of one mind as to the past training of our Race, pp. 1-49, and 51. They are generally agreed as to the untrustworthiness of Genesis, and of the Scripture generally, the hopeless contradictions between the Evangelists, &c., &c. They hold the same language about our having outlived the Faith, ('Traditional Christianity,' as it is called;) the impossibility of freedom of thought; the necessity of providing some new Religious system; the effete nature of Creeds and formularies of Belief; the advance in Natural Science as likely to prove fatal to Theology, &c., &c. [238] See St. John iii. 2: v. 36: x. 25, 37-8: xiv. 11: xv. 24: St. Luke vii. 20-22, &c., &c. [239] Creed of Lyons, A.D. 180; see above, p. clxxx., note. [240] pp. cxciv.-v. [241] See pp. 57 and 170. [242] _Some Remarks, &c._, pp. xxiii.-xxv. $Seven Sermons.$ SUBJECTS OF THE SERMONS. (_For a detailed account of the Contents of these Sermons, the Reader is referred to the beginning of the Volume._) I.--THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE RECOMMENDED; AND A METHOD OF STUDYING IT DESCRIBED p. 1 II.--NATURAL SCIENCE AND THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE p. 23 III.--INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE.--GOSPEL DIFFICULTIES.--THE WORD OF GOD INFALLIBLE.--OTHER SCIENCES SUBORDINATE TO THEOLOGICAL SCIENCE p. 53 IV.--THE PLENARY INSPIRATION OF EVERY PART OF THE BIBLE, VINDICATED AND EXPLAINED.--NATURE OF INSPIRATION.--THE TEXT OF SCRIPTURE p. 91 V.--INTERPRETATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE.--INSPIRED INTERPRETATION.--THE BIBLE IS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED LIKE ANY OTHER BOOK.--GOD, (NOT MAN,) THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE BIBLE p. 139